Bio-resources: feeding a sustainable chemical industry: Faraday Discussion

19 - 21 June 2017, London, United Kingdom

Introduction

There is a rapid growth of interest in the use of renewable resources, and in particular bio-resources for the manufacture of future, sustainable chemicals and materials. The latest USDA report on the potential for bio-based products indicates 10% chemical market penetration by 2015 with ultimately 50,000 eco-products representing a global market value of $1 trillion and the creation of over 200,000 jobs in the US alone

This movement is encouraged by end-user concerns over security of supply (of products based on traditional but diminishing feedstocks), legislation forcing substitution of many common (typically petroleum-based) chemicals, new standards for bio-based products designed to stimulate the markets in Europe and the USA, incentives (e.g. the US bio-preferred programme) and consumer pressure.

The first significant market movement in this direction was with biofuels but the rush to produce these without proper consideration of competing uses for resources and the efficiency of the manufacturing processes lead to considerable debate over the true sustainability of the products and processes. With increasing pressure in Europe, USA and elsewhere to move towards bio-based chemicals it is essential that we underpin the bio-economy with sound and well debated science and technology and that we embrace key chemical technologies including catalysis.

Themes

Bio-based materials
What materials in the future will be bio-based or bio-derived?
Should they be “drop in” replacements for existing materials or completely new materials?
Can we find or make efficiently enough renewable aromatic compounds for us to continue to have a substantial number of high volume aromatic polymers?
Bio-based chemicals
What proportion of future chemicals will be bio-based?
Should the focus be on specialities or commodities (or both)?
What will be the key bio-based “platform molecules”?
What are the drivers for bio-based chemicals?
What are the likely feedstocks?
How can we separate molecules from complex bio-based mixtures?
How can we purify molecules from refined mixtures?
Conversion technologies
What proportion of the bio-based market can be met from bio-transformations?
How can modern chemical catalysis be exploited in the area?
Can we fully exploit heterogeneous catalysis in the conversion of biomass to chemicals?
Can we integrate bio- and chemo-technologies such as bio- and chemical catalysis?
What is the future for alternative energy technologies (e.g. microwave)?
Do we need new technologies?
How can we match raw materials with market needs?
Feedstocks and analysis
What are the most important feedstocks for a bio-based chemicals/materials industry?
How important is the location of the feedstock?
Do we need speciality non-food feedstocks?
How can we analyse complex bio-based mixtures?
How can we separate complex bio-based mixtures obtained from biomass?

Aims

This Faraday Discussion aims to address some of the critical issues in this field by bringing together experts in different but complementary areas in the chemical sciences. These issues include:

Which resources?
All chemicals or specialities only?
How can (green) chemistry complement biotechnology in the production of chemicals and materials?
Which catalytic technologies re best suited for the biomass challenge and what are the knowledge gaps?
Can we use the synthetic chemistry toolkit to create a new chemistry set based on (bio-derived) platform molecules?
How can (green) chemistry help the bio-energy (including bio-fuel) industries?
Do chemists understand enough about biomass?
What will be the most important biomass conversion technologies?
How can we address the complex separation and analysis issues associated with biomass chemistry?
What proportion of materials (especially polymers) can bio-based products replace?
Should bio-based chemicals and materials be drop-in or do we need to start new molecules and processes and create new formulations to deal with new components?

These topics are largely unresolved and sometimes controversial yet their solution is essential. This Faraday Discussion will provide the opportunity for discussion and networking of the multidisciplinary team needed to make good progress.

Format

The Faraday Division have been organising high impact Faraday Discussions in rapidly developing areas of chemistry and its interfaces with other scientific disciplines for over 100 years.

Faraday Discussions have a special format where research papers written by the speakers are distributed to all participants before the meeting, and most of the meeting is devoted to discussing the papers. Everyone contributes to the discussion - including presenting their own slide if it aids discussion.

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Organised by the Faraday Division in association with the Environment, Sustainability and Energy Division.

Deadlines

Jan 30 2017
Full paper submission deadline

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Abstract Submission

Submit your oral/paper abstract by 03 October 2016
Submit your poster abstract by 17 April 2017 - extended deadline

Oral Abstracts and Research Papers

A full research paper containing new unpublished results always accompanies oral presentations at Faraday Discussions. Submit an oral/paper abstract if you wish to be considered for an oral presentation and associated published paper. The oral/paper abstract should outline current research in progress. Authors of the selected abstracts must then submit a full research paper with a significant amount of new, unpublished work by 30 January 2017.

The research papers are reviewed upon submission and are sent to all delegates 4 weeks before the meeting so they can be read in advance. At the meeting the presenting author is allowed five minutes to highlight the main points of their paper, and the rest of the time is for discussion. The discussion is recorded and will be published alongside the research paper in the Faraday Discussion Volume.

Poster Abstracts - deadline extended until 17 April

Submit your poster abstract by 17 April 2017. Posters are displayed throughout the meeting and a poster session is held on the first evening. The Faraday Division Poster Prize will be awarded to the best poster presented by a student at the conference.

Additional Information

Authors will be notified of the outcome of the review process within about 6 weeks of the submission deadline. The abstracts should be no longer than one A4 page in portrait layout. Please ensure you provide the details of the presenting author and indicate whether you are submitting an abstract for oral or poster presentation.

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Registration

Registration for Bio-resources: feeding a sustainable chemical industry: Faraday Discussion will open in Autumn 2016.

Please read the registration information on this page before registering.
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Please note accommodation is not included in the registration fee.

Registration includes

Attendance at the sessions
Refreshments throughout the meeting
Lunch on Monday 19 and Tuesday 20 June
Attendance at the poster drinks reception on Monday 19 June
Attendance at the conference dinner on Tuesday 20 June
A copy of the discussion pre-prints
A copy of the final theme issue of Bio-resources: feeding a sustainable chemical industry: Faraday Discussion containing papers presented at the Discussion (issued approximately 6 months after the meeting)**

For non-member registrants, membership of the Royal Society of Chemistry until the end of 2017
Registration fees are as follows:

	Early Bird (By 28 April 2017)	Standard (By 22 May 2017)
Members*	£335	£385
Non-members***	£435	£485
Student members**	£160	£210
Student non-members	£185	£235

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**Excluding students, who can order the volume at a reduced price at the conference

***For non-member registrants, affiliate membership of the Royal Society of Chemistry until the end of 2017, the affiliate membership application will be processed and commence once the registrant has attended the event.

Student Delegates

In order to encourage undergraduate or postgraduate students to attend the Discussion, a reduced conference fee (to include a set of pre-prints but not the final Discussion Volume) is available. This fee applies to those undertaking a full time course for a recognised degree or a diploma at a university or equivalent institution.

A copy of the publication may be purchased at less than half price, only for orders placed at the meeting where an application form will be made available.

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The conference banquet on Tuesday 20 June is included in the registration fee.
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Bursaries

We have a limited number of non-competitive travel grants of up to £200 for PhD and early career scientists travelling within their home country. These are assigned on a first come, first served basis and are available to members in the associate category and above.

We also offer grants of up to £800 to assist with travel expenses to participate at this meeting. These are available to members in the associate category and above, who are PhD students, postdocs within 10 years of completing their PhD and early career scientists (including technicians) within 10 years of leaving full time education.

Please note that we recommend you submit your application a minimum of three months before you need a decision. We will be unable to consider any applications received within 8 weeks of the start of the conference.

Deadlines

Apr 28 2017
Bursary deadline

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Programme

11:00	Registration, Tea and Coffee
12:00	Lunch
12:45	Welcome and Introductions James Clark, Chair of Scientific Committee
12:55	Outline of Discussion Format Suzanne Howson and Donna Smith, Royal Society of Chemistry Publishing Editors
13:00	Introductory Lecture (Session Chair: James Clark) Scalable feedstocks for a sustainable bio-fuels and bio-products industry: some early lessons learned and promising directions for the future Bruce Dale Michigan State University
14:00	Session 1: Bio-based materials (Session Chair: Magda Titirici)
14:00	Unavoidable food supply chain waste: acid-free pectin extraction from mango peel via subcritical water H. Xia and* A. S. Matharu* University of York
14:05	Discussion of Paper 12900
14:25	Blend configuration in functional polymeric materials with a high lignin content Yun-Yan Wang, Yi-ru Chen and Simo Sarkanen* University of Minnesota
14:30	Discussion of Paper 13553
14:50	New bio-based monomers: tuneable polyester properties using branched diols from biomass Sacha Pérocheau Arnaud, Linglin Wu, Maria-Angelica Wong Chang, James W. Comerford, Thomas J. Farmer,* Maximilian Schmid, Fei Chang, Zheng Li and Mark Mascal* University of California, Davis
14:55	Discussion of Paper 12902
15:15	General discussion
15:30	Afternoon tea
16:00	Tunable and selective hydrogenation of furfural to furfuryl alcohol and cyclopentanone over Pt supported on biomass-derived porous heteroatom doped carbon Xiuyun Liu, Bo Zhang, Benhua Fei, Xiufang Chen, Junyi Zhang and Xindong Mu Qingdao Institute of Bioenergy and Bioprocess Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences
16:05	Discussion of paper 12901
16:25	Selective oxidation of lignocellulosic biomass to formic acid and high-grade cellulose using tailor-made polyoxometalate catalysts Jakob Albert FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg
16:30	Discussion of paper 13343
16:50	Plantics-GX: a biodegradable and cost-effective thermoset plastic that is 100% plant-based Albert H. Alberts and Gadi Rothenberg* University of Amsterdam
16:55	Discussion of paper 12904
17:15	General discussion
17:30	Lightning presentations (by invitation of the scientific committee)
18:00	Poster Session and Wine Reception

09:00	Session 2: Bio-based chemicals (Session Chair: Chris Stevens)
09:00	Selective production of mono-aromatics from lignocellulose over Pd/C catalyst: the influence of acid co-catalysts Xiaoming Huang,† Xianhong Ouyang,† Bart M. S. Hendriks,† O. M. Morales Gonzalez, Jiadong Zhu, Tamás I. Korányi, Michael D. Boot and Emiel J. M. Hensen* Technische Universiteit Eindhoven
09:05	Discussion of Paper 13464
09:25	Challenges in the development of biobased solvents: a case study on methyl(2,2-dimethyl-1,3-dioxolan-4-yl)methyl carbonate as an alternative aprotic solvent Saimeng Jin, Fergal Byrne, Con Robert McElroy, James Sherwood, James H. Clark and Andrew J. Hunt* University of York
09:30	Discussion of Paper 13478
09:50	Organic waste as a sustainable feedstock for platform chemicals M. Coma, E. Martínez-Hernández, F. Abeln, Sofia Raikova, Joseph Donnelly, T. C. Arnot, Michael J. Allen, D. D. Hong and C. J. Chuck University of Bath
09:55	Discussion of Paper 13517
10:15	General discussion
10:30	Morning Tea
11:00	Fractional conversion of microalgae from water blooms Yingdong Zhou, Linling Li, Rui Zhang and Changwei Hu* Sichuan University
11:05	Discussion of Paper 13522
11:25	Developing new platform chemicals: what is required for a new biobased molecule to become a platform in the bioeconomy? José-Vitor Bomtempo, Flávia C. Alves and Fábio Oroski UFRJ - Federal University of Rio de Janeiro*
11:30	Discussion of Paper 13557
11:50	General discussion
12:00	Lunch
13:00	Session3: Conversion technologies (Session Chair: Peter Seidl)
13:00	New catalytic strategies for α,ω-diols production from lignocellulosic biomass Jiayue He, Kefeng Huang, Kevin J. Barnett, Siddarth Krishna, David M. Alonso, Zachary J. Brentzel, Samuel P. Burt, Theodore Walker, Williams F. Banholzer, Christos T. Maravelias, Ive Hermans, James A. Dumesic and George W. Huber* University of Wisconsin-Madison
13:05	Discussion of Paper 12903
13:25	The influence of the explosive decompression in steam-explosion pretreatment on the enzymatic digestibility of different biomasses Christoph-M. Seidel*, Thomas Pielhop, Michael H. Studer and Philipp Rudolf von Rohr ETH Zurich Institute of Process Engineering
13:30	Discussion of Paper 13560
13:50	Sustainable sources need reliable standards Maxim V. Galkin, Davide Di Francesco, Ulrica Edlund, and Joseph S. M. Samec Uppsala University
13:55	Discussion of Paper 13493
14:15	General discussion
14:30	Afternoon Tea
15:00	A study of biocatalysts based on glucose oxidase E.P. Golikova, N.V. Lakina, O.V. Grebennikova, V.G. Matveeva* and E.M. Sulman Tver State Technical University
15:05	Discussion of Paper 13426
15:25	Cellulose nanocrystals by acid vapour: towards more effortless isolation of cellulose nanocrystals Marcel Lorenz, Stefan Sattler, Mehedi Reza, Alexander Bismarck and Eero Kontturi* Aalto University
15:30	Discussion of Paper 13519
15:50	Effect of pretreatment severity on the cellulose and lignin isolated from Salix using ionoSolv pretreatment L. Weigand, S. Mostame, A. Brandt-Talbot, T. Welton and J. P. Hallett* Imperial College
15:55	Discussion of Paper 13515
16:20	Discussion of Paper 12907
17:00	Close of sessions
18:30	Pre-Dinner Drinks
19:00	Conference Dinner

09:00	Session 4: Feedstocks and analysis (Session Chair: David Constable)
09:00	Feedstock selection for polymer and chemical production: feedstock-specific recalcitrance Ian P. Wood, Enriqueta Garcia-Gutierrez, Nikolaus Wellner and Keith W. Waldron* Institute of Food Research
09:05	Discussion of Paper 12906
09:25	Effect of methanol in controlling defunctionalization of the propyl side chain of phenolics from catalytic upstream biorefining Paola Ferrini, Claudio Chesi, Nicholas Parkin and Roberto Rinaldi* Imperial College London
09:30	Discussion of Paper 13566
09:50	An integrated biorefinery concept for conversion of sugar beet pulp into value-added chemicals and pharmaceutical intermediates Max Cárdenas-Fernández, Maria Bawn, Charlotte E. M. Bennett, Penumathsa K. V. Bharat, Fabiana Subrizi, Nurashikin Suhaili, David P. Ward, Sarah Bourdin, Paul A. Dalby, Helen C. Hailes, Peter Hewitson, Svetlana Ignatova, Cleo Kontoravdi, David J. Leak, Nilay Shah, Tom D. Sheppard, John M. Ward and Gary J. Lye*
09:55	Discussion of Paper 13486
10:15	Bioelectrochemical conversion of CO2 to chemicals: CO2 as next generation biomass feedstock for electricity driven bioproduction Suman Bajracharya, Karolien Vanbroekhoven, Cees Buisman, David Strik and Deepak Pant* VITO
10:20	Discussion of Paper 12899
10:40	General discussion
11:00	Morning Tea
11:30	Polysaccharide-derived mesoporous materials (Starbon®) for sustainable separation of complex mixtures Vȃnia G. Zuin,* Vitaliy L. Budarin,* Mario De bruyn, Peter S. Shuttleworth, Andrew J. Hunt, Camille Pluciennik, Aleksandra Borisova, Jennifer Dodson, Helen L. Parker and James H. Clark Federal University of Sao Carlos (UFSCar)
11:35	Discussion of Paper 12905
11:55	Use of near infrared spectroscopy for the rapid low-cost analysis of waste papers and cardboards D. J. M. Hayes, M. H. B. Hayes and J. J. Leahy Celignis
12:00	Discussion of Paper 13396
12:20	Automation of route identification and optimisation based on data-mining and chemical intuition A. A. Lapkin, P. K. Heer, P.-M. Jacob, M. Hutchby, W. Cunningham, S. D. Bull and M. G. Davidson University of Cambridge*
12:25	Discussion of Paper 12990
12:45	General discussion
13:00	Concluding Remarks Lecture (Session Chair: James Clark) Andrzej Stankiewicz Delft University of Technology
13:40	Acknowledgements
13:45	Close of meeting

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Bio-resources: feeding a sustainable chemical industry: Faraday Discussion

19 - 21 June 2017, London, United Kingdom